Arctic iceberg four times size of Manhattan
2010 CE • The Arctic
“. . . formed when a 97-square-mile chunk of ice broke off Greenland’s Peterman Glacier onAug. 5, 2010. It was the largest iceberg to form in the arctic in 50 years . . . When the chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan broke off, the Peterman Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 43-mile long floating ice shelf.”
NBC News
Image: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.
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